Chicago's historic Brighton Junction. April 2007. ( Gone.)

Chicago's historic Brighton Junction. April 2007. ( Gone.), a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

I took this photo back in April of 2007.

One of My al time favorite Chicago railfan photo locations I have come to know and love known as Brighton Junction, was photographed during it's last few months of operation.

This old crosstrack junction located on the near south side of Chicago near the intersection of South Archer and Western Avenues, dated back to the steam era.

The Canadian National Railroad closed this manually controlled junction in early June of 2007, and replaced this old wooden operators little shanty and manual emaphore signals, with tall modern block signal bridges
and new crosstracks.

Brighton Junction was once a place, where steam era dispatching met modern double stack container trains on a daily basis.

Thanks.
Eddie K.